John Is a Business Manager for a Small Corporation

question 43

Multiple Choice

John is a business manager for a small corporation.Which of the following is not an ethical dilemma that John is likely to encounter?

• A)Deciding what kind of pizza to order for a company meeting.
• B)Deciding whether to lay off three employees or keep paying their salaries and take a loss in corporate profits.
• C)Deciding whether to say something to an employee who has been making rude sexual jokes in the workplace.
• D)Deciding what to tell a reporter about the recent drop in corporate stock prices.

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Definitions:

Social Organization

The structured arrangement of social relationships and institutions that collectively form the basis of society or within specific groups.

Division of Labor

The allocation of different tasks to different people or groups in a society, aimed at increasing efficiency and productivity in the production process.

Collective Conscious

An aggregation of mutual convictions, notions, and ethical positions that function as a consolidating power within a community.

Mechanical Societies

Term used by Émile Durkheim to describe simple, traditional societies connected by similarities and communal bonds rather than complex division of labor.